Silent Data, Active Patients

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    Abstract

    With the wake of digital welfare, governments advocate that patients play an active role in managing their own illnesses. This active role is sustained by access to and use of health data provided by health care authorities through new digital technologies. Stepping into an empirical site where patients log in to their own site, ‘MyChart’, we inquire their practices reading health care data and their imaginaries about active involvement in their own health care. With this, our analysis focuses on the active patient and aims to bring forth local imaginaries in an effort to nuance data imaginaries located in political strategies, which relate data access with active partnerships. Within this, we illustrate how patients are active, while data is silent and in need of work before it vocals meaningful for the patients.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationHCC: IFIP International Conference on Human Choice and Computers : Human-Centric Computing in a Data-Driven Society 14th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC14 2020, Tokyo, Japan, September 9–11, 2020, Proceedings
    EditorsDavid Kreps, Taro Komukai, T. V. Gopal, Kaori Ishii
    Number of pages11
    Volume590
    PublisherSpringer
    Publication date10 Nov 2020
    Pages398-408
    ISBN (Print)978-3-030-62802-4
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-62803-1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 10 Nov 2020
    Event14th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC14 2020: Human-Centric Computing in a Data-Driven Society - Cancelled due to covid, Tokyo, Japan
    Duration: 9 Sept 202011 Sept 2020
    Conference number: 14
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    Conference

    Conference14th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC14 2020
    Number14
    LocationCancelled due to covid
    Country/TerritoryJapan
    CityTokyo
    Period09/09/202011/09/2020
    Internet address
    SeriesIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
    ISSN1868-4238

    Keywords

    • Digital health care
    • Active patients
    • Sociotechnical imaginaries
    • Data work

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